Jeremih "Birthday Sex"

[a Nick O!]

I'd heard this a couple of times before most of you trashed it in the report card. I hadn't heard it recently, so I refrained from grading it until I heard it again. Yeah, lyrically it's a really, really stupid song that sounds like The-Dream wrote it.

That being said, I heard it last week again as an AT40 Breakout and the lush musical backdrop really saves the song for me. It's still probably a solid C, though.

Anyway, it seems that will be the last I hear the original version, unless I catch it on urban radio again. It debuted this morning on AT40, only it was this mind-bogglingly awful up-tempo mix that says "Birthday *shh*" in the chorus, despite Ryan announcing it as "Birthday Sex." Even if you're gonna censor the word "sex," at least play the original R&B version.

Is this what everyone else has been hearing on Pop radio? This stupid up-tempo "shh" mix?

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I heard the uptempo mix at a club last week, which I guess is understandable. I haven't heard it on radio though. Oh and they didn't censor "sex" either.

[mtm4319]

I read an article about Jeremih in the Chicago Sun-Times today. He seems to have a pretty good head on his shoulders. Apparently he graduated high school at 16, went to the University of Illinois to study engineering, then transferred to Columbia College (a large arts/media school here) for a music degree before being discovered. (And yes, all this info is on his Wikipedia page, along with the pronunciation of his name. Apparently it's "Jere-my", as in "Jeremiah" without the "ah". Awkward.)

[a Nick O!]

Jul 1, 2009 0:04:45 GMT -4 mtm4319 said:

Apparently it's "Jere-my", as in "Jeremiah" without the "ah". Awkward.)

I only knew how to correctly pronounce it after Ryan Seacrest started saying his name on AT40. I don't know that there is a good way his parents could have spelled it with clear pronunciation in mind. Maybe "Jeremye"...